Tag: Prayers

Melting Faces and Midnight Prayers

The following poem is about not getting ANY sleep after bringing home a baby. I had the weirdest images of my entire life go through my mind during this time of no sleep. After a few weeks, I beat insomnia. One visualization I used to help during this time was imagining myself asleep on a huge ...

We Made it to Disney With an Empty Bank Account and Lots of Prayers

I wasn’t sure we’d make it to Disney World. My kids wanted to go, but there were multiple barriers. For starters, Disney wasn’t cheap. After paying for tickets, parking, food, and souvenirs, I knew that one day at Disney would cost well over $1,000 for my family. The figure jump...

Melting Faces and Midnight Prayers

Note to readers: The following poem is about not getting ANY sleep after bringing home a baby. I had the weirdest images of my entire life go through my mind during this time of no sleep. After a few weeks, I beat insomnia. One visualization I used to help during this time was imagining myself ...

We Made it to Disney With an Empty Bank Account and Lots of Prayers

I wasn’t sure we’d make it to Disney World. My kids wanted to go, but there were multiple barriers. For starters, Disney wasn’t cheap. After paying for tickets, parking, food, and souvenirs, I knew that one day at Disney would cost well over $1,000 for my family. The figure jump...

Melting Faces and Midnight Prayers

Note to readers: The following poem is about not getting ANY sleep after bringing home a baby. I had the weirdest images of my entire life go through my mind during this time of no sleep. After a few weeks, I beat insomnia. One visualization I used to help during this time was imagining myself ...

No Healing Prayers Please — Rather, Be Like The Child

It’s not every day you see a dog in church and on that particular day, one lady could not resist him… First, let me back up a bit, here’s the scene: Occasionally Mr. Dale and I, with Cooper, my guide dog, will accompany my mom who is 90, to church. She misses my dad who pass...

Thoughts and Prayers

I’ve always felt a distaste for the Fourth of July. Between the look of terror on my cat’s face with every unexplainable boom, and the adverse implications of firework’s on California’s landscape, I was never a fan of fireworks. But more recently, my distaste for the holiday ...